Cullingworth nestles in Yorkshire's wonderful South Pennines and I have the pleasure and delight to be the village's Conservative Councillor. But these are my views - on politics, food, beer and the stupidity of those who want to tell me what to think or do. And a little on mushrooms.

Tuesday, 5 June 2012

When a meeting in a pub needs an "inclusion policy", you know there's something not right with the world!

I appreciate that "skeptics" (apart from their inability to spell the word) are a little odd but I can see no point or purpose to such a policy. They'll be having published standing orders and rules for debate next. Followed by endless debates about the rules requiring meetings to resolve those disputes - before you know there's politics followed inevitably by governance and leading to that ghastly excluding organisational mindset that leads most of these bodies to be come self-referencing and purposeless cliques.

How long before Mr Green publishes his "draft" equal opporutnities policy (for a meeting in a pub)!

I must say I agree with you about this, Simon, it is all a bit over the top.

I left the following comment on David Allen Green's blog, but oddly, it's still in a moderation queue. Not like him to censor, I expect it's just a glitch. But anyway, this is the comment I left there:

This is all a bit over the top, isn’t it? I’m with Simon Cooke on this: it starts to look spookily like the People’s Popular Front of Judea.

Why not go with the excellent suggestion above from Shane: just have “don’t be a dick” as the one single rule.

After all, you talk about inclusivity. What about people who are put off by excessive bureaucracy and rules? Having an “inclusion policy” may have the perverse effect of putting those people off.